Mar 4, 2012

Nunu Chocolates Satisfies Sweet Tooths in Brooklyn With Salt Caramels, Beer-infused TrufflesBy Patty LeeNYDailyNews.com

Brooklyn, NY – Justine Pringle and Andy Laird started selling chocolates the old-fashioned way — by going door-to-door.

The Brooklyn couple, who decided to dabble in chocolate making on a whim six years ago, brought samples of their treats to nearby shops Bierkraft and Blue Apron Foods.

“Andy’s primary passion is music and he used to play a lot in the city and we were thinking ‘What can we sell at these shows that’s not standard merchandise like CDs and t-shirts?'” recalls Pringle, a trained scientist. “Then we thought, ‘Well, if we’re going to make the chocolate, we’ll see if local shops would sell it’.”

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